But we’re also being forced to ask ourselves some serious questions. I was saying something like, “Sure, it’s cool that we live in this post-everything world where gender is over and hetero-normativity is off-trend and all the rules of sexuality have been thrown out the window. On the receiving end of my rant was my friend “Lori,” a 23-year-old MFA student studying queer theory. Last week, I found myself at Cafe Gratitude in Los Angeles, eating a gluten-free scone and fuming about gender, as one does in 2016.
